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Georgina sucked in a deep breath, forcing her breasts against the tight bodice of her dress. “WhenI win,” she said more stubbornly than before, “I want everything my husband used as collateral returned.”
“Ifyou win,” Leo replied, “I will gladly return it all to you. I’ll even throw in a bloody gardener for Beechwood Court. I understand the gardens and lawn are in a terrible state of disarray.”
“And I want the remainder of my husband’s markers restored to me,” she said boldly, surprising Leo. “The stack you keep in your safe. A paltry sum for you, but for me, it represents nearly the whole of my dowry. Do you agree?”
Leo hadn’t thought it possible to want her more than he already did.
“I do,” he said. The amount wasn’t paltry in the least. Leo would have described the sum as obscene. And Masterson had gambled it all away over the last two years.
“I insist on an honest dealer and a fresh deck of cards. Not the marked deck you probably have hiding in the drawer of your desk.”
How the bloody hell did Georgina know he had marked cards in his desk? To his knowledge, she’d never been in here before. Leo would certainly have remembered. His brother must have told her.
“Agreed.”
Georgina kept her eyes on him, fingers curled into her skirts. “Is this really how you want me, Leo?” she said quietly.
Intolerable.Why must she look at him with such disappointment?
“Yes.”
